[development] FYI more drupal.css stuff

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Richard Archer wrote:

>At 8:30 PM +0100 13/11/05, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
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>>Only cached pages are gzipped and I think that mod_gzip is bright enough
>>to repsect the gzip header that is sent by Drupal.
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>On my Apache/2.0.53, PHP/4.3.11 system mod_gzip blindly compresses
>anything you send to it. It is not smart at all.
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That's strange, it would mean that you couldn't use Drupal's caching 
with mod_gzip? It works just fine for me.

Didn't we two fix this issue not too long ago?

>By enabling zlib.output_compression in php.ini and mod_gzip in
>Apache you can triple-compress pages being served by Drupal!
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You shouldn't be able to.

>>Possibly. There is a "gzip the css" task on drupal.org with some links
>>on the topic.
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>I know... I posted a possible solution to that issue but nobody
>has commented on it so I haven't taken it any further.
>http://drupal.org/node/11128
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>Dries also made some comments about a preferred solution in:
>http://drupal.org/node/13224
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>I really think that if bandwidth is an issue the solution is to
>merge all the css for your site and serve it gzipped using a
>special entry in .htaccess. In which case this would not be an
>issue for most site admins... it's an issue for the hosting
>company.
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Maybe you could set up a handbook page that explains this.

>Since I run a hosting company and I pay for bandwidth this issue
>is on some concern to me. I'll add this task to my todo list,
>but it could be a month before I get to actually work on it.
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Since I usually only need between 3 and 5% of my bandwidth I am only 
interested in it for scientic reasons. ;)

Cheers,
    Gerhard